New Report Shows Over Two Million Secrets Detected on Public GitHub in 2020 and a 20% growing trend Year-Over-Year.
By Jeremy Thomas, GitGuardian CEO When we started working on GitGuardian’s detection algorithm and got the first detection results, we could not believe it. We were facing a very counterintuitive […]
Data Loss Prevention in Turbulent Times
By Otavio Freire, CTO & Co-Founder at SafeGuard Cyber Data, the saying goes, is the new oil. This probably understates the case: Not only is data at the core of […]
These 2 attacks allow to alter certified PDF Documents
Researchers disclosed two new attack techniques that allow modifying visible content on certified PDF documents without invalidating the digital signature. Researchers from Ruhr-University Bochum have disclosed two new attack techniques, […]
Belgium Interior Ministry said it was hit by a sophisticated cyber attack
The Belgian interior ministry was targeted by a “sophisticated” cyber attack, a spokesman told RTBF public television on Tuesday. The Belgian interior ministry was hit by a “sophisticated” cyber-espionage attack, […]
French intel found flaws in Bluetooth Core and Mesh specs
Attackers could exploit a set of Bluetooth vulnerabilities, affecting the Core and Mesh Profile specifications, to conduct man-in-the-middle (MitM) attacks. Researchers at the french intelligence agency ANSSI discovered multiple flaws in the Bluetooth Core and Mesh […]
A dozen Android apps exposed data of 100M+ users
Check Point researchers found 23 Android apps that exposed the personal data of more than 100 million users. Security researchers from Check Point have discovered 23 Android applications that exposed […]
Secure Data Recovery Services: Protecting Business Continuity
By Dmitri Kardashev, Founder and CEO, SecureData, Inc. In today’s world, consumers and businesses alike require consistent and easy access to their data. Whether it’s large customer databases that an […]
City of Tulsa, is the last US city hit by ransomware attack
The city of Tulsa, Oklahoma, has been hit by a ransomware attack over the weekend that impacted its government’s network and shut down its websites. One of the biggest cities […]
A new Linux Botnet abuses IaC Tools to spread and other emerging techniques
A new Linux botnet uses Tor through a network of proxies using the Socks5 protocol, abuses legitimate DevOps tools, and other emerging techniques. Researchers from Trend Micro have spotted a new Linux botnet […]
China-linked APT used Pulse Secure VPN zero-day to hack US defense contractors
At least one China-linked APT group exploited a new zero-day flaw in Pulse Secure VPN equipment to break into the networks of US defense contractors. According to coordinated reports published […]
The skills to propel your team’s cyber security defense
By Andrew Loschmann, Chief Operating Officer, Field Effect Advancing your cyber security capabilities as you scale is an obvious need. But if you’re resourced like many infosec departments, either very lean or […]
How to Simplify Zero Trust Adoption
By Bhavya Pathak, Product Marketing Manager, ColorTokens Gone are the days when an organization could trust everything within the four walls of its perimeter. Cloud computing, and accelerating digital transformation […]
How to provide both a Secure & Seamless Remote Onboarding Experience on a Regula Basis?
By Arif Mamedov, Ph.D., President of Regula Forensics, Inc. Onboarding is like a gateway, where you as a guard can either let the right person in or assure that a […]
2021 Cybersecurity Outlook: The More Things Change, The More They Stay the Same
By Nir Gaist, Nyotron, Founder Cybersecurity has gone through many phases over the last few decades. Today, we hear about a new, more volatile-than-the-last attack every day that has the […]
4 Matchmaking Tips to Find your Perfect SOC 2 Fit
Finding the right Systems and Organizations Controls (SOC 2) auditor for your organization By Patrick Murray, chief product officer, Tugboat Logic Given the heightened scrutiny and due diligence organizations place […]
Secure, Managed File Transfer: What’s Old is New Again
Intrigue and Espionage May not Come to Mind when You Think of MFT—But it Should By Gregory Hoffer, CEO, Coviant Software When you think about secure, managed file transfer (you […]
30 Docker images downloaded 20M times in cryptojacking attacks
Experts discovered that 30 malicious Docker images with a total number of 20 million pulls were involved in cryptomining operations. Palo Alto Network researcher Aviv Sasson discovered 30 malicious Docker images, […]
Bitcoin Soars but Will Security Risks Spark Greater Regulation?
By Marcella Arthur – VP, Global Marketing at Unbound Tech Cryptocurrency is now the third largest payment system in the world, hot on the heels of Visa and Mastercard after […]
Transitioning to Remote Work: The Apps You’ll Need to Ensure A Productive Workforce
By Ikechukwu Nnabeze, SEO Copywriter, Traqq The world is changing at a swift pace. A couple of years ago, remote work was an unheard term in the business world; it […]
Industry 4.0 under Threat Landscape
By Milica D. Djekic New tendencies in the technological landscape have brought new challenges in safety and security terms. It appears that industry 4.0 is more than ever under the […]
Thousands of VMware Center servers exposed online and potentially vulnerable to CVE-2021-21972 flaw
A Chinese security researcher published a PoC code for the CVE-2021-21972 vulnerability in VMware Center, thousands of vulnerable servers are exposed online. A Chinese security researcher published the Proof-of-concept exploit code for […]
The US Government is going to respond to the SolarWinds hack very soon
The US is going to respond to the SolarWinds supply chain attack within weeks, national security adviser Jake Sullivan told CNN. The US will respond within weeks to the devastating SolarWinds […]
Top 100 Cybersecurity Hackers
The following list, in no particular order, contains the names, their countries of origins, their (biggest) victim (s) and a short piece about who they are. Some are reformed and […]
Cyber Defense Magazine nominated Cobwebs Technologies for Its 2021 InfoSec Awards for threat intelligence
By Udi Levy, CEO & Co-Founder at Cobwebs Technologies With a growing number of malicious cyber activities, threat intelligence has become an integral part of many organizations. Most threat intelligence […]
Over 3.2 billion emails and passwords hacked…find out if you are a victim and what to do about it…
It’s time to consider new passwords and multi-factor authentication or password management tools The current breach is really a compilation of many breaches, hence it’s name “Compilation of Many Breaches” […]
Tesla sues former employee for allegedly stealing sensitive docs
Tesla has accused a former employee, a software engineer, of downloading about 26,000 sensitive files and transferring them on his personal Dropbox On Saturday, Tesla sued the former employee Alex […]
Financial Data Security Risks in The Hands of Online Shops or Intermediary Applications
By Ben Hartwig, Web Operations Executive, InfoTracer Online retail fraud continues to rise year on year. Fraudsters are becoming more sophisticated and although we can put more and more consumer […]
Managing Small Business Cybersecurity During Covid-19
By Bill DeLisi, CEO of GOFBA Small businesses are undertaking extraordinary changes during the coronavirus epidemic. They’re laying off staff, shifting their business models, and managing the challenges of remote […]
$100 Million Paid – One Billion in Sight for Hackers
By Marten Mickos, CEO at HackerOne One hundred million is an enormous number. Today we celebrate with all our hackers the phenomenal milestone of a hundred million dollars in bounties. […]